Tag: Gear / Gadget Lab Podcast
A New Wave of Peer-to-Peer Apps Heralds a Farm-to-Table Internet
This week, we discuss the local-first computing movement and its push to reduce our reliance on the corporate-owned, cloud-based software tools we use every day. Source
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Hollywood’s Strikes Will Disrupt Podcasts, Games, and TikTok Too
This week, we talk about how the changes in Hollywood fueling the writers’ and actors’ strikes will reach beyond TV and movies to also affect podcasts, video games, and TikTok. Source
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Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans
This week, Steven Levy joins us to talk about Musk’s new generative artificial intelligence startup. We also discuss whether that absurd cage match is actually going to happen. Source
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Stop Trying to Make New Twitter Happen
This week, we talk about the instant popularity of Threads, poor little Bluesky, and why Twitter likely isn’t going anywhere. Source
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Your Clothes Are Making You Sick
This week, we talk to the author of To Dye For, a new book about toxic fashion and the abundance of harmful chemicals in our clothing. Source
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Walmart and Amazon’s Race to Rule Shopping
This week, we talk about how the two giants have changed the digital—and IRL—retail landscape over the course of their decades-long rivalry. Source
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